Improvement in neck-yoke holders



G. R. HUNTLEY.

Neck-Yoke Holders.

I N0. 142,852. Patented September16,1873.

@ummm STATES PATENT GEETCE. i

GEORGE R. HUNT-LEY, OF HUBBARDSTON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND CARLOS E.- HAIT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN NECK-YOKE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,852, dated September I6, 1873 application filed August 24, 1872.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE R. HUNTLEY, of Hubbardston, in the county of Ionia and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Neck-Yoke Holder, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l represents a face view, and Fig. 2 a vertical transverse section, of my improved neck-yoke holder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in constructing the holder of a flexible sheet-metal plate, which laps around the yoke and is secured to the perforated leather plate by rivets, as hereinafter described.

A in the drawing represents a piece of leather of the required size and-suitable shape, with a hole through it large enough to lit the tongue of the carriage or wagon. This leather may be made of several layers, as indicated in Fig. l, until it has the requisite thickness and strength. In the place of leather, rubber or equivalent tough and durable material may be used. B B are two metal plates applied to the opposite faces of the leather A, and fastened thereto by bolts or rivets a a, or equivalent means. The plates B B are, at

their upper ends, bent into cylindrical forms, and finally brought against those sides of A, respectively, that are opposite to the sides to which they are originally and mainly attached. They thus form the loop or eye b, through which the neck-yoke C is inserted. The manner in which the upper parts of the plates B B are bent around the neck-yoke is fully shown in Fig. 2. The downwardly-carried upper ends of the plates B B are fastened by bolts or rivets d. The plates B B are perforated to leave the opening through A entirely unobstructed, as shown. Thus the plates lap around the yoke, and, being flexible and formed in one piece, they form a strong, durable, and cheap device for the purpose.

I am aware others have employed neck-yoke holders formed of metal plates embracing the leather plates and the neck-yoke, and I do not, therefore, claim suchconstruction.

Having thus described my invention, I cla-i 1n as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The neck-yoke holder formed of the perfo rated leather plates A and the flexible sheetmetal plates B, formed in one piece and applied thereto on both sides, and passing around the yoke O vso as to form the eye b, all as shown and described.

GEORGE R. HUNTLEY.

Witnesses:

J oHN MUssER, BENJA. FAGAN. 

